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From Monolithic To Modular: Kicking Your Sales Content Engine Into High Gear

Forrester IT

To deliver relevant experiences for each buying situation, B2B organizations need modular sales content. At B2B Summit, learn how high-performing organizations use sales content solutions to achieve this.

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The Death of the Perimeter: Zero Trust is (Almost) Here to Stay

Association of Information Technology Professional

As part of the long goodbye to the firewall-first approach, we’ve been hearing quite a bit about how cybersecurity pros use various technologies and practices related to zero trust.

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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Marketing Software Suites, Q2 2021 – Martech’s Cornerstone Realigns In The Face Of Disruption

Forrester IT

I’m excited to announce The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Marketing Software Suites, Q2 2021. The timing couldn’t be better, because the world – marketing included – has changed dramatically in the 18 months since the previous EMSS evaluation in October 2019. Unprecedented social, regulatory, and economic factors like data deprecation remain top of mind and are […].

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Wi-Fi in 2025: It could be watching your every move

Network World

I consider myself a techno-optimist. Technology has improved life for humanity in countless ways, like the wheel, the printing press, selfie sticks—these marvels have enriched us all. So too has Wi-Fi. If not for Wi-Fi , no one could idly stream YouTube videos on company laptops through rogue hotspots at a busy-but-socially-distanced coffeeshop when we’re supposed to be doing our jobs.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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CX Is A Critical Driver Of Emotional Loyalty

Forrester IT

Emotion metrics can be a measure of a customer’s actual loyalty. But only when they're placed in a larger context of customer loyalty metrics. Read more.

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SCCM Collection Query Preview Tool | Best Tool to Analyse Collection Query | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post SCCM Collection Query Preview Tool | Best Tool to Analyse Collection Query | ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

Tech Republic Security

A former IT pro turned end user explains why blending your work and personal tech was, is and always will be a bad idea for you and your employer.

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Forrester’s B2B Summit Is Here — And With It Comes The Future Of B2B Sales

Forrester IT

Learn what successful selling will require in our upcoming B2B Summit North America.

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3 Important Ways IT Improves Digital Operations with AIOps

Social, Agile and Transformation

It’s no secret to anyone working in technology that IT’s operating world is becoming more demanding and complex. Digital transformation, hybrid working, exponentially increasing data volumes, greater security risks, and expanding global regulations are all driving up business demands and expectations for reliable and robust technology operations. Business leaders expect IT.

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For Channel Partners, If It Makes Dollars, It Makes Sense: Using TEI To Build The Business Case For Your Channel Program

Forrester IT

A Forrester channel TEI study highlights the economic metrics and the business advantages to choosing to work with that partner. These studies can explain and break down the economics and the outcomes of a partnership investment in real-dollar terms partners understand — not just gold, silver, and bronze.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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What You Might Not Realize About Your Multi-Cloud Model

Information Week

Recognizing the nuances of a true multi-cloud deployment is the first step toward making it happen. From there, CIOs can follow a straightforward plan to actualize value.

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Spearline increases its global coverage, adding Panama to its list of fixed-line countries

Spearline Testing

Welcome Panama to Spearline fixed line testing! Here at Spearline, our main goal is to replicate your customers' call experience with your organization. We are always working to ensure it is of the best quality. Testing your numbers around the world needs global coverage, and we are getting closer to covering that scale. We are delighted to announce that Panama has joined our list of certified countries for fixed-line testing and is available for immediate testing.

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Bitcoin cheat sheet: Everything professionals need to know

Tech Republic Security

If you're curious about the original decentralized cryptocurrency, here's what you need to know about Bitcoin, including why the price of a bitcoin keeps climbing.

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Sony patent describes an AI that plays games for you

TechSpot

As reported by Segment Next, Sony’s patent covers a technology that trains a bot in the user’s playstyle. The AI starts with a basic set of behaviors that evolve as it monitors the player’s actions and decisions. The result is a bot that plays in a way indistinguishable from the.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Alaska State Senator Now Has 20-Hour Commute After Refusing to Mask Up on Planes

Gizmodo

An Alaska state senator filmed arguing with Alaska Airlines staff and police at Juneau International Airport over her refusal to wear a mask before boarding a flight is finding out the hard way that actions have consequences. Read more.

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Microsoft on verge of reaching $2 trillion market cap milestone following this week’s earnings report

GeekWire

Day 2 of the GeekWire Summit 2017 at Sheraton Seattle on Wednesday, October 11, 2017. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire). The $2 trillion club: Microsoft may soon join Apple and Saudi Aramco among companies valued at more than $2 trillion. The Redmond, Wash. tech giant reports earnings for the March quarter Tuesday afternoon. Its market capitalization is currently $1.97 billion; shares have risen 20% this year.

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How to use iOS 14.5’s new app tracking blocker

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Privacy is on everyone’s mind these days, and in iOS 14.5, which is starting to roll out to the public today, there are new privacy features that may make you feel happier but are not endearing Apple to some other companies — specifically Facebook. The new feature is aptly called App Tracking Transparency. Many apps don’t just track your movements inside the app, but they track your movements outside of the app — in other words, where you go after you’ve left t

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Why ‘deepfake geography’ presents significant risks — and how researchers are detecting it

GeekWire

What may appear to be an image of Tacoma Wash., is, in fact, a simulated one, created by transferring visual patterns of Beijing onto a map of a real Tacoma neighborhood. (Image via Zhao et al., 2021, Cartography and Geographic Information Science). “Seeing is believing.” It’s an aphorism that used to be a lot more true than it is today, now that computers can easily produce all manner of fake images and altered recordings.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room

Venture Beast

Zoom has launched a new immersive video feature designed to help businesses create more engaging and collaborative virtual meetings. Read More.

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Apple AirDrop users reportedly vulnerable to security flaw

Tech Republic Security

Someone with the right know-how can obtain your phone number and email address when you try to share a file from your iPhone, say researchers at the University of Darmstadt.

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Could the World Ever Run Entirely on Renewable Energy?

Gizmodo

This week’s question—could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy?—is shadowed by a much larger one: Namely, will politicians and powerful forces of delay like Big Oil ever allow the world to run entirely on renewable energy? For the most part, we have put that larger question aside for this installment; the… Read more.

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AMD dominates Amazon's best-selling CPU chart, despite Intel's discounts

TechSpot

AMD has been eroding Intel’s share of the CPU market for years. The former’s chips are now found in 30% of Steam users’ PCs, while other reports have also shown team blue losing ground to its rival.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Apple will focus on machine learning, AI jobs in new NC campus

Venture Beast

Apple's new campus and engineering hub in North Carolina will focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. Read More.

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Just Give Captain America His Wings, Hasbro, Damn

Gizmodo

With Falcon and the Winter Soldier done and dusted , so cometh the inevitable wave of tie-in merchandise to capitalize on the Disney+ streaming show. But if you’re looking for, say, an action figure of Sam Wilson as Captain America from Hasbro, it turns out you’re gonna need a lot more than the 20-odd dollars you were… Read more.

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Samsung warns ongoing chip shortage could impact production of its smart TVs

TechSpot

While most of us know the detrimental effect the chip shortage is having on PC hardware/accessories, phones, game consoles, etc., it has also impacted production within industries such as vehicles and home electronic goods, including smart TVs.

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CIO Role Expands into Company Culture, Customer Experience

Information Week

As the pandemic drove more transactions and work online, the enterprise CIO's role expanded to be more focused on business, customers, and employee culture.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Bill Gates predicts ‘very small numbers’ of COVID by end of 2022, takes heat for vaccine patent defense

GeekWire

Bill Gates predicts “the end will come” for the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in an interview on Sunday that a return to normal will arrive next year. “We won’t have eradicated this disease, but we’ll be able to bring it down to very small numbers by the end of 2022,” Gates told the UK’s Sky News. The Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle has been heavily invested in the response to the pandemic in the U.S. and across the world.

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The Oscars' Egregious Chadwick Boseman NFT Art Is Being Redesigned

Gizmodo

Out of all the awkward and weird things that made this year’s Oscars rather cringeworthy at times , nothing stood out quite like the Academy’s decision to commission artist Andre Oshea to create NFT art of Chadwick Boseman. Read more.

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Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother

The Verge

The Yayagram looks and works like an old-fashioned physical phone switchboard. | Twitter: @mrcatacroquer. Making sure elders can keep in contact with children and grandchildren has never been more important in a time of global lockdown. That’s why Twitter user @ mrcatacroquer , Manuel Lucio Dallo, built the Yayagram — a DIY project that makes sending and receiving voice and text messages over Telegram a physical process just like using an old-fashioned phone switchboard.

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Leaked tests show Nvidia's CMP 40HX mining card performing close to an RTX 3060

TechSpot

When Nvidia revealed that it would once again launch a CMP line of silicon explicitly made for mining purposes, the listed specifications were a little underwhelming, as are the three months of warranty offered with some AIB cards based on the Nvidia CMP 30HX chip. However, the die shot accompanying.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.